Data Driven Investor — Rewind #1

Augur, Assassination and Morality on the Blockchain
by Shashank Pattekar — 5 min read
The chilling 2014 film Nightcrawler charts the rise of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Lou Bloom, a mildly psychotic, Travis Bickle-like character who goes from being made unemployed, having been caught stealing on the job, to becoming a successful ‘stringer’ — a freelance photojournalist who sells footage of serious and often bloody crimes to local news stations.

6 Steps to Powering AI in the Finance Industry from someone who actually tried
by Saad Rguig — 6 min read
I have been working in the financial industry for the past eight years … and since 2010, I have been observing the fast moving and disruptive technologies transforming the industry and with it the way we do finance. From the emergence of FinTechs and RegTechs to the creation of alternative finance solutions (cryptocurrencies, crowd funding, peer to peer lending) and above all, the explosion of new technologies and tools like AI, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, etc.


